Head of Risk

About the role

The Head of Risk will own and develop the firm's end-to-end risk function, providing senior leadership and accountability for the design, implementation, and enforcement of a firm-wide risk framework. This role requires strong quantitative expertise to manage complex, real-time markets across both traditional finance and digital assets. The successful candidate will co-design risk architecture with the COO and CIO, ensuring disciplined risk-taking across trading, treasury, and investment activities.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain a quantitative risk framework grounded in modern risk theory including market, credit, liquidity, and systemic risk modelling.
• Co-design and implement the firm-wide risk management system including data architecture, risk aggregation, and real-time monitoring.
• Build an integrated risk view across centralized and decentralized venues covering exchange, counterparty, and smart contract risks.
• Define and implement advanced risk metrics such as VaR, Expected Shortfall, and stress scenarios across all business lines.

Required skills

• Quantitative Risk Management
• Market Risk
• Credit Risk
• Liquidity Risk
• Risk Modelling
• Scenario Analysis
• Stress Testing
• System Design
• CeFi
• DeFi

Nice to have

• TradFi to Crypto Risk Translation

Benefits

• Annual Team Retreats
• Semi-flexible working hours

About the Company

Keyrock is a global digital assets firm providing liquidity across centralized and decentralized exchanges. The company operates a full spectrum of capital markets businesses including market making, high-frequency trading, and asset management, with a focus on building agentic investment banking capabilities.